Cross-benchmarking international competitiveness and performance in human language technologies

Benchmarking

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 594-608

  Kenny, Brian ^a   Meaton, Julia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Communication technologies; Competitive strategy; Entrepreneurship; Finland; Language

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548030413     PISSN: 14635771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14635770710819272     Document Type: Article

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